News - National
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24-Jun-2010
Jesuit Refugee Service has reminded governments that urban refugees share all of the challenges of the urban poor, but often
face additional barriers due to their uncertain legal status and lack
of documentation.
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23-Jun-2010
Welfare legislation passed by the Senate to allow the blanket imposition of compulsory income management is an "invasion of private lives, a denial of dignity, and a removal of self-determination", says the St Vincent de Paul Society.
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23-Jun-2010
ACU vice-chancellor Greg Craven has criticised the record of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, but says the problem can be fixed with a 'get tough' policy for new tertiary teaching institutions.
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23-Jun-2010
News of a new high school by Brisbane's Catholic Education, the St
Benedict's Catholic College, is being welcomed in the northern Brisbane
suburb of Mango Hill.
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22-Jun-2010
Jesuit human rights advocate Father Frank Brennan has argued that
Australia should return to the pre-2001 practice of accepting refugees
arriving through Indonesia as Australia's responsibility.
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22-Jun-2010
Cardinal George Pell last night told a virtual audience of churchgoers with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott that the Greens have an "explicitly anti-Christian" agenda.
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21-Jun-2010
Bishop Michael Malone of Maitland-Newcastle has encouraged Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson to clarify what he knew about an alleged paedophile priest who has been the subject the Strike Force Georgiana police investigation.
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21-Jun-2010
After attending the First Holy Communion of her children, broadcaster and comedian Wendy Harmer has written in her Sunday Telegraph column that we could all do with more devotions and rituals.
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21-Jun-2010
The majority of Anglican and Protestant say new ways of doing church are needed to connect with the wider Australian community, the 2010 National Church Life Survey has found.
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24-Jun-2010
Alleged parental and student intolerance could force a bullied Melbourne Catholic school boy with Asperger's syndrome to change schools.
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25-Jun-2010
A Wollongong diocesan official has stressed that training catechists to ensure they conduct engaging and effective classes is critical, adding that it is uncertain that proposed ethics classes in NSW state schools will be adequately resourced.
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22-Jun-2010
Women's and girls issues advocate Melinda Tankard-Reist is urging underwear manufacturer Bonds to immediately remove from sale a bra marketed to eight-year-olds.
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18-Jun-2010
Cardinal George Pell has ordained six men to the priesthood at St Mary's Cathedral, representing the largest group of ordinands in Sydney since 1983.
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22-Jun-2010
A six-year study of 1500 Far North Queensland Catholic school students is expected to show why some engage in risky or anti-social behaviour.
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24-Jun-2010
Archbishop Adrian Doyle of Hobart has said that spending taxpayer's money on developing euthanasia legislation is at the cost of other care initiatives.
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24-Jun-2010
Archbishop Philip Wilson, President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, has told a Canberra forum that the inspiration of St Thomas More gives the Church strength to face challenges when things go wrong.
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News - International
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24-Jun-2010
The Church's own teachings of forgiveness, truth, grace and reconciliation are "vital assets in promoting healing and hope" in the midst of the sexual abuse allegations and cases it is facing, according to Bishop Donal McKeown.
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23-Jun-2010
Poor access to essential medicine by children and other vulnerable groups in the developing world must be addressed by international organisations, a Vatican official said.
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18-Jun-2010
The latest speculation suggests Cardinal Marc Ouellet will be the new become the new prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, not Cardinal George Pell, as earlier rumoured.
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18-Jun-2010
England soccer striker Wayne Rooney has blocked from discussing his Catholic faith by a Football Association official at the World Cup.
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25-Jun-2010
Police in Belgium raided the palace of the Archbishop of Mechelen, north of Brussels, following a string of sexual abuse allegations against Church figures.
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24-Jun-2010
Australia's Ambassador to the Holy See, former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer, has said he hopes Mary MacKillop's extraordinary trip to Rome to see Pope Pius XI in 1873 would serve as inspiration for pilgrims to her canonisation ceremony.
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23-Jun-2010
Vatican officials have announced a discovery of the earliest known icons of Saints Peter and Paul, in a catacomb under an eight-storey modern office building in a working-class neighbourhood of Rome.
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23-Jun-2010
German Bishop Walter Mixa, who resigned in early May over allegations he beat children at an orphanage and misused church funds, is now facing allegations of sexual and alcohol abuse in a "secret" Vatican dossier.
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22-Jun-2010
A film that reached the top 10 box office list in Italy has revived the legend of Pope Joan - an Englishwoman who reputedly disguised herself as a man and became the only female pontiff.
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22-Jun-2010
Italian priest Father Paolo Padrini, who developed the iBreviary app two years ago will be launching a new app that will allow priests to celebrate Mass with an iPad on the altar instead of a printed Roman Missal.
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21-Jun-2010
Archbishop of Naples Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, who was previously the Vatican official responsible for foreign missions, is under investigation for corruption along with an Italian ex-government minister.
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21-Jun-2010
The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has warned that the roots of the financial crisis will not be addressed unless banks learn not to sacrifice morality for profit.
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21-Jun-2010
The Cubao diocese in the Philippines has excommunicated former seminarian Xavier Eubra de Borja, who had posed as a priest and built a following with his "Latin Masses".
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25-Jun-2010
Authoritative Vatican analyst Sandro Magister has written that local Christians on the Arabian peninsula are being swamped by the arrival of large numbers of migrants.
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Regulars
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25-Jun-2010
Some years ago I was speaking to a candidate in the RCIA programme who
thought, like many already-Catholics think, that all priests are in vows
of poverty, chastity and obedience. I explained that most priests were
not in fact religious. She responded: "So you don't need to be
particularly religious to be a priest?" What to say... - Bishop Anthony Fisher, Priesthood in the Dominican Order @ Irish Dominicans
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24-Jun-2010
A Christian endeavour of almost 2,000 years could be substantially
completed by 2025. Protestant translators expect to have the Bible - or at least some of it
- written in every one of the world's 6,909 spoken languages. - Electa Draper @ The Denver Post
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23-Jun-2010
Religion still matters if the roll-up at the 2010 Make It Count event,
organised by the Australian Christian Lobby, is any guide. Kevin Rudd
and Tony Abbott appeared separately at Old Parliament House in Canberra
before an audience that included Cardinal George Pell, the Anglicare
executive director Kasy Chambers, Hillsong's Brian Houston and World
Vision's Tim Costello. - Gerard Henderson @ The Sydney Morning Herald
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22-Jun-2010
Born in Mexico in 1980, Raul Gonzalez is a sturdy six-foot-one, with
dark, close-cropped hair. He has a fair command of English, but faltered
occasionally, searching for words, and at one point broke down and wept
in describing the sexual abuse he endured, in childhood and
adolescence, by his father, the late Marciel Maciel Degollado, founder
of an international religious order, the Legionaries of Christ. - Jason Berry @ NCR Online
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21-Jun-2010
The Church's law provides for various punishments when her sons or
daughters go astray, but in the case of priest sexual abusers, perhaps
the most serious canonical punishment is not always the best one,
according to US canon lawyer, Fr John Beal. - Canon law crimes and fitting punishment @ ZENIT
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25-Jun-2010
CathNews has often featured articles from Eureka Street. Today, we feature the website itself, which this morning offers a feast of analysis and opinion on the momentous political changes that have brought Australia its first female Prime Minister. - www.eurekastreet.com.au
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24-Jun-2010
It is not generally known that famed pop artist Andy Warhol was also a Mass going Catholic. This series of paintings from Warhol's later years now on display at the Brooklyn Museum are said to reveal both the painter's beliefs as well as his irreverence towards the subject. - Andy Warhol: The Last Decade @ The Brooklyn Museum
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23-Jun-2010
The Jesuit Refugee Service Australia is curently focusing on a series of events to mark Refugee Week. - www.jrs.org.au
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22-Jun-2010
Redemptorist Fr Bruce Duncan teaches at Yarra Theological Union in Box Hill, Melbourne and is one of the founders of Social Policy Connections and of the Yarra Institute for Religion and Social Policy. - www.frbruceduncan.com
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21-Jun-2010
The Missionary Sisters of Service, have announced the launch of a foundation in honour of the order's founder, the late Tasmanian priest, Fr John Wallis. - www.missionary-srs-service.org.au
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22-Jun-2010
To be frank, the storylines created by writer-director Rodrigo García
for Mother And Child are the stuff of pure television daytime soap
opera. But seldom, if ever, have they been written and acted and
directed with such delicacy, verity and skill. - Jim Murphy, Australian Catholic Office
for Film and
Broadcasting.
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25-Jun-2010
Filmed before, during and after his final days on the High Court of
Australia this documentary explores the personal, moral and spiritual
convictions of Michael Kirby - one of the country's greatest legal
minds. It charts his formative years, his Christian faith and his 40
year relationship with his partner Johan van Vloten. - Michael Kirby on Compass
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24-Jun-2010
Michael Burleigh is a cut above the rest,
proving it with his new
publication, Moral Combat: A History of World War II. For here is not
just the often fanatical fighting
on land, sea and air and the fate of millions of innocent civilians
caught up in a worldwide conflict which claimed 55 million lives.
Importantly, as he explains, his new perspective is also "how the
prevailing moral sentiment of entire societies and their leaderships
changed under the impact of both ideology and total war". - John Hinton @ The Catholic Herald
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25-Jun-2010
It was called for by Pope Ratzinger, by the name of "court of the
gentiles." It will be inaugurated by his minister for culture,
Archbishop Ravasi. It will be a place for dialogue with those far from
God, the first act of a wider project of new evangelization. The idea is to open a systematic
dialogue with the men who are farthest from God, so that they may
approach him "at least as Unknown."
- Sandro Magister @ www.chiesa
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24-Jun-2010
Few of us would be overjoyed to be told that our quarantining
will ensure that some pensioners will be unable to drink their pensions
away, and that some other taxpayers will be unable to wallow in a sty of
porn movies. Most of us would be annoyed that the government had
selectively restricted our freedom to spend our money as we please, and to name the priorities of our own lives for a
supposed higher good. We would believe our responsibility for shaping
our lives was being infringed, and with it our human dignity. - Andrew Hamilton @ Eureka Street
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23-Jun-2010
Australian scholar, Samuel Gregg, who is research director at the Acton Institute, questions the role of expansive and expensive welfare programs in bringing European social democracies to the verge of catastrophe. - Samuel Gregg @ MercatorNet
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22-Jun-2010
The issue of sexual abuse of women in the Church in Asia has been
simmering beneath the surface for a long time. It is not a new issue. It
has just never made the news before. But that must now be rectified. - Virginia Saldanha @ ucanews.com
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21-Jun-2010
Well known in Australian social justice circles, Filipino Redemptorist Brother Karl Gaspar analyses the effects of the Tampakan copper and gold mining project, which is partly owned by Australian interests. - Karl Gaspar, A Sojourner's View, Tampakan or Tamakan @ MindaNews
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23-Jun-2010
The Columbans have announced a Sydney Memorial Mass for the late Fr Cyril Hally to be held on Thursday 24 June at 10am at ACU, Strathfield Campus. Fr Hally died in Melbourne on May 18th.
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21-Jun-2010
Adelaide Archdiocese is hosting a See-Judge-Act workshop which aims to
examine the Cardijn-inspired method and its application for reviewing
daily life and as a tool of social analysis. - See-Judge-Act workshop,
Cathedral Hall, Adelaide, Saturday 26 June 2010, 8.30am - 4.30pm.
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